Real Player is Badware......

Perhaps this should have been in Consumer Watch or Speakers Corner. Personally I mainly agree with the comments in your link and for that reason don`t put Real Player on any of my machines. If I do I make sure during setup that I untick everything to do with message centre, automatic updates (Which slows down startup by checking online for them) and I deselect every file format except those not covered by WMP & the other playes I already have installed.

i have been wondering about real player for a while and after reading this thread have decided to get rid of it so went looking in 'add and remove programes'in controll pannel,but it was not there so i used media wipe to remove real player but it left one empty folder 'templates' which dosen't want to go anywhere. i must add that i could not find any uninstall reference for real player anywhere.

I tried downloading the Real Alternative through "rawprawn" and got warnings from Norton not to do it, no digital signature or something. What is the official way to get this and is it still the way to go?